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PROTECTION HAS ONE-THIRD OF THE SOUTHERN VOTE. A Disturbing Fact Among; Democratic Leaders-'Thirty-two Southern House Members Voted for the Uinsley Bill Tariff Measure Making: Progress. Speed ioTifc Senate. , Special Washington correspondence: The Senate is making surprising speed on the tariff bill. The pressure which is being brought upon it by the country has resulted in early and late sessions, and the bill is moving at a rate o| speed absolutely unparalleled in thelhistory of that ordinarily slow- fioingjrbody. To see a Senate controlled by cloture rules and no system such lait by which the House expedites business move at the speed which this -one has moved upon a subject which •ordinarily takes such a vast amount of time in that body is unprecedented. It is sometimes possible upon sub­ jects Which have no party 'bearing and do not involve vast consequences to ob­ tain speed in consideration by the Sen­ ate. But that a body not controlled by the . Republican party, or by any other „ single party indeed; having no rules by which debate can be controlled, should be able to take up and make the prog­ ress upon a purely party measure, such as a protective tariff bill, that has been made by the Senate sinc~e .it began work upon this measure* is an entirely un­ heard of thing. That this should have happened within a few months of the close of one. of the most bitterly fought campaigns that the country has ever seen is the more remarkable; and that people should go on complaining be­ cause still greater speed is not made under these remarkable circumstances can scarcely be accounted for, except upon the theory suggested by a gentle­ man recently quoted in this corre­ spondence, that the state of nervous prostration to which the Cleveland ad­ ministration brought the country has rendered the people to some degree ir­ responsible arid unwilling to measure things expected by those that have happened in the past. ; _ The House Schedules Restored. Nearly all the important changes made by the Senate committee have been rejected by the caucus and the House rates restored. The rice sched­ ule, the sugar schedule, the lumber schedule and others of those framed by the House have beei*> restored to the bill in the Senate, and it is predicted that the wool schedules framed by the House committee will also be restored, and will make the bill entirely satisfac­ tory to those interested. The restora­ tion of the House figures ou the sugar schedules deprives the Democrats of their hope that pey would be able to charge that the sugar trust had con­ trolled the framing of the bill. Many Protect ioifVotes from the South. Nothing has more disturbed the Democratic leaders in and out of Con­ gress than the ^act that a large num­ ber of Democratic members from the South have, within the past few days and weeks, cast {their votes in favor of a protective tariff, and that no less than one-third of thej members of Congress from south of Mason and Dixon's line have either voted directly for a high rate of protection in the pending tariff bill, or refused to cast their votes against it. Thirty-two Southern men in the House vottd for the Dingley bill, and five others from that section--Pop­ ulists--refused to vote against ft, while in the Senate, )ts is well known, num­ bers of Southern Democrats and Popu­ lists have voted for either higher rates of protection than were originally placed in the bill, or than those report­ ed from the Finance Committee. That this growth of protective senti­ ment in the South is a genuine one and largely the result of the development of manufacturing industries in that sec­ tion, is apparent, but the necessity fcfr excusing and minimizing it has led Mr. Bryan's organ, the Omaha World- Herald, and others papers, to assert that the protective vote from the South is cast by men not natives of that sec­ tion, and not representing its real sen­ timent. In a recent issue, the Omaha World-Herald, commenting upon this subject, says: "During the last decade a great deal of Northern capital has been invested in Southern manufacturing enterprises, and it is natural that the investing cap­ italists, after years of paternalism in the shape of protection, should still cling to it.. The voices from the South crying for protection are voices that have been imported into that section from protection nurtured New England, and are not the voices of Southerners. * * * The protectionists in the South are those who have left the sterile hills of New England and wandered down South to bioaden their field of opera­ tions." u This statefcuent is interesting and es- pecisyij^sftrr^ause it is untrue. Its ^liSJ^ftitlifulnes adds to its interest be­ cause it sho7S to what desperate straits the Denoeratic leaders are forc­ ed in attemptng by falsehood, as well as otherwise, jo rescue the free trade theory from distraction by members of their own pary and by men who have been lifelong members of it. This asserton that the Southern votes which hk^e been cast for the pro­ tective tariff bf especially pro­ tective featuips proposed or adopted, were cast hymen not natives of that section--earprt-baggers--is absolutely untrue. Five Democrats voted for the tariff bill in the House. Kleberg and Slayden of T?xas, and Broussard. Da- vey and Mey;r of Louisiana. Six Dem­ ocrats have roted for high protective features \»f tie bill in the Senate. Ba­ con and Clay of Georgia. Tillman and McLaurin of South Carolina, MeEnery of Louisiana and Martin of Virginia. Every one of, these (with the possible exception of Meyer of Louisiana, who does not indicate his birthplace in the autobiography published in the Con­ gressional Directory), is a native born Southerner, atkl has lived all of his life in that section. Senator MeEnery was born at Monroe, La., was nominated by the Democratic party as Lieutenant Governor in 1879, by the same party for Governor in 1884,'by the same par­ ty for Governor in 1S92, and by the same party for Senator in 189G, being elected as a Democratic Senator with the clear understanding that he was a protectionist in sentiment and would so vote in the Senate. Mr. Meyer, of Louisiana, who voted for the tariff bill e, has spent practically hia entire life in ^the South, educated in Virginia, serving as a Confederate offi­ cer, and elected term after term • to Congress as a Democrat. Mr. Davey, of Louisiana, who voted for the tariff bill in the House, is a native of New Orleans, held various offices in that State as a Democrat, and was elected to Congress as such. Mr. Broussard, of Louisiana, who also voted for the Dingley bill in the House, is a native, of Louisiana, has held many positions in Louisiana under the "Democratic party, and was elected to Congress as a Democrat. Mr. .Kleberg, of Texas, who voted for the bill in the House, is a native of that State, served in the Confederate army, was elected to the State Senate as a Democrat in 18S2, held a Federal office as a Democrat by appointment of President Cleveland, and was elected to Congress as a Dem­ ocrat. Mr. Slayden, of Texas, who is a native of Kentucky, was elected to the Texas Legislature as a Democrat and to Congress as a Democrat, yet voted for the Dingley bill in the House. Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, who voted for high protection in the Dingley bill in the Ways and Means striking.balance in favor of.the United A PfiTTXTn a nm cfm t mra States. Indeed, unless all" signs fail, AKOUril) A BIG" STATE we shall be called upin in the fall to furnish, in a large measure, wheat for the whole world. The Mark^Lane Ex- "'press, a reliable crop weekly of London, presents a most discouraging view of the wheat crop outlook in Europe. In England a mediocre yield of twenty- • sev<®. to twenty-eight bushels per acre is all that is looked for; in France the prospect is that 0,000,000 quartets will have to be. imported to supply the aver­ age^ need; the Prussian and Polish wheat is promising, and the Russian reports are equally encouraging; but hi Austria, cold rains have ruined the hopes of the wheat-growens. On the other hand, the outlook in the United States is most encouraging.--Philadel­ phia North American. "A Surplus! The close of May. gave the treasury again the novel experience of a surplus, though it was a small one, amounting only to $688,131. This, like the sur­ pluses of March and April, was due to the heavy importations in anticipation of the new tariff. The customs receipts during May were 56,000.000 greater than in May of last year. The fact that Committee, and voted for a high rate . . ...... . of protection the Senate on certain features of the bill, is a native of South Carolina, was barely brings in sufficient revenue to j balance the expenditures adds to the BRIEF COMPILATION OF NOIS NEWS. V IL-L.I- vr. Daughter of Postmaster Hunt of Oakland Under Arrest--Attempted Suicide of a Man Whose Father Killed-Himself* elected Attorney General of that State ! wT , 5°^ I as a Democrat, and four times elated j totf^ h^ to Congress, as a Democrat; Senator - Tillman, of South Carolina, who voted . * " ^10 tllfe fisca} for a high rate of protection on cotton j ™.e *2f'~ and thus enabled its adoption by the *• £*** tba* \he .lane receipts may bring-this year's de­ ficit down to near last year's figures, it-can hardly go below them. Thus the Wilson law, instead of becoming ade­ quate when it got properly to working, si^tVB^nrJS^gTa^bo! Senate, is a native of South Carolina, • was nominated for Governor in that State by the Democratic convention and elected, and was elected to the Senate of the United States as a Pern- led the successful fight for the protec tion of cotton and also voted with the Republicans for a high rate of protec­ tion on lumber, is a native of Georgia, was president of the State Democratic convention in 1880", elected a Demo­ cratic Presidential elector in 1868, was a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives for fourteen years, and was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat. Senator Clay, of the same State, who voted with Mr. Bacon for protection to cotton and lumber, is also a native of Georgia, was chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, and still holds that position, and was elected to the Senate as a Democrat. Senator Mar­ tin; of Virginia, voted with the Repub­ licans for a high protection on lumber. He is a native of Virginia, and his Democracy has never been questioned. Senator Butler, of North Carolina, Pop­ ulist. who voted not only for protection to cotton, but has sundry other high protection amendments to the tariff bill now pending, is a native of North Carolina, was a Democrat prior to 1S91!, since which he has been a Populist, and is now Chairman of the National Com­ mittee of that party. Five Southern Populists in the House refused to vote against the protective tariff bill. Fow­ ler. Martin. Shuford. Skinner and Strowd of North Carolina, all of them being natives of the States they now represent. The same rule in most cases applies to the thirty Republicans from tlso South. The Republican party has in Congress to-day a greater number of members from south of Mason and Dixon's line than ever before, with the possible exception of a single Congress shortly after the close of the war. Of the fifty Southern votes in Congress cast for, or refused to be cast for, the protective features of the tariff bill now pending, only seven are by men who are natives of the North, while four of the Northern votes cast for the protective tariff bill in the House, Bar- ham of California, Lacey of Iowa, Dol- liver of Iowa, and Morris of Minneso­ ta, are native of the South. A. B. CARSON. * Randall Yet Lives. "It is remarked by the St. Louis Globe- Denvoerat that the "spirit of Randall- ism" is swiftly reviving in (the Demo­ cratic party. That is perfectly true--at least, of the non-Bryan wing of it. As a matter of fact, the great mass of the Northern and Eastern Democracy never was gen­ uinely converted to the doctrine which used to be known as "tariff reform." Its attitude toward it was not so much acceptance as acquiescence. So long as Mr. Cleveland kept this notion to the fore and associated a sense of po­ litical success with it, all went well, but with defeat came first indifference and then revolt. The reason why Mr. Cleveland, with all the prestige of vie-1 tory, and all the machinery of the Fed- j eral patronage at his command, could not persuade a Democratic Congress to pass a radical free trade tariff in 1893- 94 was because many of the Democratic leaders and most of the rank and file rn the Northern States distrusted not only the political expediency but the economic wisdom of free trade legisla­ tion. Randall was dead, but the influence of his teachings was still powerful. Now the extreme free traders have swung off after Bryan and free silver, the Democracy is split in two. and Ran- dallism is naturally beginning to re­ assert its sway over the conservative faction of the sundered party.--Boston Journal. - longer it has been in operation.--Buf­ falo Express. -1 May Hnrt the Revenue. The longer the bill is before Congress the greater will be the importation of wool, woolen goods, tea, sugar and the other articles removed from the free list on to the dutiable schedules, or on which duties are to be advanced. If the bill does not go into operation until August or September the importation of some of these articles may be great enough in the interval to furnish a sup­ ply for a year or more in advance, and thus cut the revenues of the new act accordingly.--Ohio Valley Manufactur­ er. Growth of the United States. In its May number the North Ameri­ can Review has commenced the publi­ cation of a series of articles on the "Progress of the United States," by Mr. Michael G. Mulliall, the well-known British statistician. The progress of this country during the last fifty years, he says, surpasses that exhibited by any other nation in ancient or modern times, whether viewed in regard to pop­ ulation or to industry and wealth.-- Iron and Steel Bulletin. Where Wages Increase. Labor in England is faring well. The British B<fard of Trade reports changes in rates of wages during April that af­ fected 53,500 people, of whom 52,500 received increases that averaged 42 cents per week after deducting the de­ creases in the wages of the 1,000 work ers whose earnings were lowered. Hur­ ry along the tariff bill and transfer a little of that prosperity to American ^age-earners. j Foreign Linens Coming:; The Irish Textile Journal, May 15, gives the exports of linen manufac­ tures from the United Kingdom to the United States at 17,583,300 yards for the month of April, as compared with 6,737,300 yards in April, 1896. * Our First Need. Before other business is transacted let us first provide sufficient revenue to faithfully administer the Government without the contracting of further debt or the continued disturbance of our finances.--William McKinley, Execu­ tive Mansion. They Worked with a Will. The United States Senate started nobly on its work of revising the Ding­ ley tariff, and we trust there may be ho let or hindrance in the continuation of the good work. Senators appreciate the necessity for prompt action. Down on the Dudes. American tailors are entitled to pro­ tection against the free importation of the innumerable suits of clothes that American tourists may wish to bring with them after their European trips. Cheap Coolie Labor. The fifty-seven cotton mills of Japan have made an average profit of 10% per cent, for the half year ended December 31, 1S96, after allowing for the reserve funds.--The Indian Textile Journal. Hard oil the Wnce Karnera. The proposed ten-cent tea tax is not meeting with favor among the wage- earners in our factories. ~~ P*^A11 Need It. Give protection to American cotton, ft is as much entitled to it as sugar, ric-e, hops, wool and hides. Silver Hurts Their Foreign Commerce^ There is a remarkable similarity m the reasons assigned by officials of Japan and Peru for the Recent action of those two countries in the adoption of the gold stands id. In eaxii case they say that the complications under the silver standard were so great as to prove disadvantageous to their f oreign commerce. Both President Pierola and officials of Japan state that in practical experience their countries fou itl that the fluctuations in their own- standard placed them at a disadvantage in,com­ merce with other parts of tho: wtH'W, foreign buyers treating their caUi.,as simply so much bullion, which .they • bought for gold and paid out. to,.the people of those countries, at its.; if ace value, thus causing loss to their people as well ns uncertainty and .constant difficulty in tnode matters. This prac­ tical experience of people who,..have made long tests of the silver standard under the fluctuations in value of that metal is worth acres of theory such as was spread over the United States.Jast fall upon this very subject. . A Good Motto. "He gives twice who gives quickly" should be the present motto of the Uni* ted States Senate. - A Goad Idea. Protection to American labof is a good thing. Push it along. Our Dead Presidents. Every one of our departed Presidents died' from heart failure--that is, when their, hearts failed they were dead. Washington's fatal malady was croup, while the others died from these caus­ es: Adams, Madison, Monroe and Hayes, natural decline and general de­ bility; Jefferson and Polk, chronic diarrhoea; John Quincy Adams, Fill­ more and Johnson, paralysis; Jackson, dropsy; Van Buren, asthma; Harrison, pleurisy fever; Tyler, bilious attacks with bronchitis; Taylor, cholera mor­ bus and typhoid fever; Pierce, dropsy and inflammation of the stomach; Bu­ chanan, rheumatic gout; Lincoln and Garfield, assassination; Grant, cancer of the tongue; Arthur, Bright's dis ease.--New York Press. For the Embroiderer. A lady who does exquisite embroid­ ery work says that when you button- liole scallops in your embroidery hold the concave edge toward you. - Do not Good for the Farmers. knot your thread, to trouble you and The comparative estimates-^.ot w&pat! make your work look rough, but ran crops for 1897 in Europe and in this j two. or three fine stitches as you start country show a most ropiavk&bte anaj ip, • . Confesses Robbing; the Mails. Miss Elvira Hunt, daughter of Post­ master William Hunt of Oakland, has been arrested' for rilling the mails. She acted' as assistant postmaster. For a numbsr of months letters containing money sent from that city failed, to teach their destination, while letters contain­ ing money addressed1 to persons in Oak­ land1 failed to materialize. Complaint was filed with the postal authorities, who sent an inspector to discover the cause. The officer .mailed) four decoy letters, each containing a dollar bill. Then the officer rode oat of town on the Clover Lea f mail train, but found none of the letters iu that mail. . He returned- to Oakland and waitecl for. the evening mail to go out. After the pouch "had been delivered to the train the inspector held' the train, while he examined the' mail. None of the decoy letters were found in the pouch. He. then went back to the postoffiee ami found three of t he, deCoy letters, two of which had b^tf tampered With, while the' fourth letter was Ijoiiie^ x Miss Hunt acknowledg­ ed to- the ins'iieefor' that she had destroy­ ed this letter, but had soivt the dollar mil to an' Indianapolis firm for goods. The girl coJifessitKl to'Mni that she had been, tampering with the mail since' last- Sep­ tember.-' During that time hundreds of dollars' have been lost. Postmaster Hunt is-very wealthy and the- daughter, -hereto­ fore, lias. borne an unblemished reputa­ tion. 'The postofiice accounts have been found 'to^e correct. c~ lilCcted to Supreme Court. Judge Carroll 0. Boggs. who ran for a seat on the Supreme bench in the first Supreme Court district, was elected over Justice David J. Baker by a narrow ma­ jority. The Supreme judge is a native of Fairfield and a son of the pioneer physi­ cian-, Dr. It. L. Boggs. He lias been judge of the Circuit Court of the second circuit for the past twelve years and he has made a notable record. For half that length of time he has also been a judge of the Ap­ pellate Court at Springfield. Judge Boggs was nominated by the Democrats and the Populists. He is an able judge and a deep studeuit of the law. For years he has been legarded as one of the foremost law­ yers in the State. He was educated in the University of Michigan and was ad- CAUROM, C. HOGGS mitted to the bar in 1866. Since then he has been honored with election- to the office of State's Attorney, county judge and circuit judge. He has been an ad­ mirable citizen and has given freely of his income to the upbuilding of -the city and the enlargement of its enterprises. He is interested' in fruit growing and has devel­ oped a fine apple orchard of 180 acres. He is very popular with his neighbors. When he ran for State's Attorney, county judge and circuit judge he was nominated on the first ballot Of the conventions ami when he was nominated for supreme judge it was by acclamation. Justice Boggs has three charming daughters and two sons. He is now just 53 years old. Would Die Like His Sire. Frank C. Henderson shot himself in the head in a room on the second floor of the Tremonit House in Chicago with sui­ cidal intent. He was taken to the Pres­ byterian hospital after he had been exam­ ined' I j* the physician for the Tremont and Great Northern Hotels. Just a yea r ago Henderson's father, Andrew Is. Hen­ derson, shot and killed himself on a se­ cluded walk near the green houses in Humboldt Park. At the time Frank said his father was driven to take his life on account of financial matters. The father killed himself on June 3, 1S96, and ever since that time Frank has been despon­ dent. . State Ne-wo in Brief. At Rock Island, Mrs. Mary A. Wilkes aged 76, while returning home from a re­ ligious meeting was thrown- from a car­ riage end killed. While Mrs-. Charles Ilaggenjos was driving near Galesburg she was thrown out and struck against a tree". Her skull was fractured and death resulted. Because he had served four years in t he penitentiary, Donald1 McGregor was re­ fused work in Joliet, although he had qualifications for a good position. Thurs­ day night he resolved to commit suicide, but he feared the hereafter and gav« up the idaa of death. Hungry and an despair he brake into Santa Fe and Elgin, Joliet and Eastern freight cars and sent word to the police by a boy. He was arrested and declared that unless he were sent to the penitentiary he would hang himself, as he could not starve, as he had been do­ ing. Letters in his possession show that McGregor is connected with one of the first families in Scotland'. . "Babe" Henley killed1 Harmon Woods and John McKay one mile south of Gray- ville Friday morning in a quarrel over trout lines. All were fishermen. Henley claims the men assaulted him and he shot in self-defense. Ada.n Dick, connected with jthe manu­ facturing interests of Mob no, of which he was a resident for many years, recent­ ly of Chicago, died Thursday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Skidmore. 'three sons of Mr. Dick live in Chicago, where the burial took place at Rosehii! cemetery. -- An eHfer Was issued by the Adjutant General providing for mustering iwto the militia service the new cavalry troop just organized in Springfield. It is expected that this troop will act as the personal es­ cort of Gov. Tanner and his staff at the Logan monument dedication exercises iu Chicago., 1 r.' A printers' feud led to a murder in the saloon of Louis Bapst. at Chicago: Thurs­ day iiiight, Albert Burke stabped James Raithgeber and severed his jugular vein. The victim d'ied- without uttering a word. Burke and two companions fled'. Rath- gebfyr, as well "as Burke, was employed on the Inter Ocean. He was 35 years odd and had1 a wife and several Children. /The strawberry festivals <Hinis far have suffered severely from cold fete. An Eastern scientist claims, that "New England is changing her climate," iMay be Illinois has been using it lately. That Chicago poetess who sings about "peerless jUne" understands her business. June this year certainly is without a peer. Ten-year-old George Rich was instantly killed by a cable train at Chicago. The accident happened as the boy. trying to dodge a team, ran in front of the train. Gov. Tanner pardoned Alexander Du- son, convicted in Knox County in Febru­ ary, 1888,.of the murder of Isaiah Brown and sentenced' to JoMet prison for twenty' ye#rs. H. S. Burpee, teller- of. the Rockford National Bank, and Miss Blanche Walk­ ed, both prominent society young people Of Rockford, were married, the wedding being the most brilliant of the season. W. S. Chandler, proprietor of the Chff House at Waukegan, was run down by a Chicago and iSorthwestern train at the Waukegan depot and was so badly in­ jured that he died. He was years old and leaves a widow. y Christopher Glaser, & businesas man of the village of Clayton, fell froni the loft of his barn. He struck on his back on the edge of the manger below, and his abdo- men was burst open from one side to> the other, allowing the viscera to protrude. The Board of Supervisors of McLean County offered a reward o,f $100 for the arrest of Mrs. Anna Coiton, suspected of the murder Of her husband, Michael. T, Coiton; also.$100 for information leading to the conviction of the murderer of Mi­ chael T. Col ton.. Ont> Eilts and. William Peiper lighted the fu;se, of a blast in Shole's mine under the Peoria insane asylum site. It . did. not explode and -they ' returned to the Chamber just "in time to receive the full force of the belated discharge. Eilts was buried under tons of coal and slate and instantly killed. Peiper had both legs broken below' the knee. - He was a mile from the entrance and painfully crawled the entire distance on his hands and knees to secure relief for himself and carry the news of the death of his mate. Another Chapter in the Pacific elevator fire in Chicago several months ago has been added in the Will County Circuit Court. Attorneys J. L. High and Thomas Bates of Chicago and House of JoMet be­ gan fifty suits at law in the Circuit Court in behalf of the elevator company. The defendants are various insurance com­ panies, which have not yet settled the fire losses. Over $100,000 in damages are al­ leged. April last twenty suits in as­ sumpsit were filed-, involving the same liti­ gation, making seventy-nine suits by this company .a^\aiting trial. A vertUcA)f $10,000 damages against the Moouey & Boland detective agency of Chicago and W. J. Sutherland, its superintendent, was rendered in favor of Mrs. Ada {E. Hoslier by a jury in Judge Ball's court. Mrs. Hosher is the wife of \V. H. Hosher, formerly a claim agent for' the West Chicago Street Railroad Company, who was arrested two years ago. charged with having made away with valuable files in a large number of damage suits against the company. At the time she was also taken into custody by the Moouey & Boland agency, but there was no evidence against her and she was never prosecuted. The tramp millionaire, James E. Berry, who has been electrifying Salem, reached Mount Vernon, and not finding his new bride created considerable street gossip by his talk and actions. It seems likely that a separation will result unless friends intercede. The trouble arose from a de­ sire on the part of Mrs. Berry to travel by rail from Centralia, instead of driving through, and a failure to reach Mount Vernon. Stopping over at Ashley, she telegraphed him. and he claimed not to have received the dispatch, and next morning gave chase and found her at a . hotel. Fire visited Carliuville Wednesday af­ ternoon, destroying over $200,(MX) worth of property. It started in the main build­ ing of the St. Louis Milling Company's establishment, which turns out 1,000 bar­ rels of Hour per day, and in two hours the whole plant of five buildings was burned to the ground. The mill company's loss will aggregate over $150,000. There was an insurance of $75,000 on the plant, but very little on the stock. Residences own­ ed by Jerry Coffey, Vai Seigel and Mrs. Cogan, and the hardware store of John Shaiper were totally destroyed. It is thought the mill will not be rebuilt, which means a great loss to the city. No lives were lost. The origin of the fire is un­ known. The citizens of Joliet are divided in two factions over the action of the Council in ordering that all vagrants found about Joliet be shackled with ball and chain and put to work cleaning the public streets. The chief of police obeyed the order and the next day a "chain gang" was the attraction on Jefferson street. Finally the entire business district took sides, on the question, one side favoring t!he action of the authorities in trying to rid the town of tramps, and the other faction denouncing the method as inhu­ man and revolting. * A remonstrance sign­ ed by 300 names went to the Council, but it was tabled after a fierce discussion, and now the citizens are more indignant than ever. Constable Goodman of Evan-ston had an interesting time in trying to serve a sub­ poena on Edward Murphy, the crack pitcher of North western University, Wed­ nesday night. Murphy is wanted as a witness in the mayoralty election contest to tell what he knows about illegal voting by students. He escaped to the roof when the constable came, but the officer finally rounded him up behind a chimney and read the subpoena to him as he stood shiv­ ering in his night shirt. Attorney Palme# who is conducting the examination of students, missed his train Wednesday and the fifty students who had been serv­ ed with subpoenas refused to wait for him. It will be necessary to subpoena the students again, and each will demand an­ other witness fee of $1.10 before he will appear to testify. At Salem, constables levied on a locomo­ tive and three passenger cars of the. Cen­ tral and Chester Railroad just as the train was leaving the depot. The action tied' up all trains. The seizure was to protect local creditors. The Rockford health department, which is conducting; a vigorous prosecution of the sellers of diseased meat, caused the arrest of Daniel Brill, against whom evi­ dence will be brought to show that he sold a steer to a local butcher which was, killed While suffering with lumpy jaw. Brill, who is a prominent stock buyer, is now in jail, and this is the second arrest. Fire at Cairo destroyed- $80,000 worth of property, including the new Baptist Church and annex, the Halliday ware­ house and contents, the transfer stables of Glynn, with twenty-six head- of horses, all his wagons and drays, and several dwelling houses. . Loss only partially cov­ ered by insura nce. John Looni, a sculptor from Chicago, is at the Marshall County poor farm suf­ fering from mental aberration. Leoni made "he Brooklyn bridge in soap, ad' mired by thousands at the World's Fair and afterward was employed at the Field Museum, where he fell from a scaffold, resulting in an injury to his head, which has produced a mild form of insanity. GL0BY FOR THE COW BOGUS BUTTER TABOOED IN ILLINOIS. May No Loncer Assume the Golden Hue of the True Dairy. Product-- Gov. Tanner Gives Force to a Re­ cent Legislative Enactment. ^ Blow to Butterine. Gov. Tanner, has siigned the bill prohib­ iting *he coloring of butterine to resem­ ble butter. He also signed Senate bill 375, entitle^ "An act concerning local improvements," known as Dwyer's spe­ cial assessment bi'll; Senate bill 349. com­ monly called "the garnishment bill," and Senate bill 419, repealing the libel law. Other bills approved were Senate bill 10, to provide for parti-cipaction in the trans- Mississippi exposition at Omaha; Senate bill 37, appropriating for ordinary ex­ penses and improvements at the State formal University, at Normal, and Seo- at£ bill 109, appropriating for the .Uni­ versity of Illinois, at Champaign. He vetoed several measures, among them these: The bill to ai'miorize the use voting . machines'; two appropriation bills <"or the benefit of-the Western Hos­ pital for the Insane, .at Rw'kfo.rd, and the asylum for the,incurable;insane at Bar-' tonville. The last two, however, beings approved as to part of their provisions. , Now that the anti-color butterine bill is a law, in the event of its constitution­ ality (which is sure to be tested before the highest courts),-The• buiteMne.. industry of Chieago, %Vhich represents approxiijiately investments aggregating over $5,000,000, will practically be wiped .out of existence. It will mean the* reduction of a.total an­ nual output of butterine from 40,000*000 pounds to perhai>s less than 10,000,000 pounds. All of the big butterine. manufacturers of Chicago combined to resist the passage of the bill. But the farmers of the State as well as the big creamery interests were almost unanimously in favor of legislation that would remove the product of the but­ terine factories from competition with real butter and they insisted so urgently that the bill must pass that nearly every repi'esentative and Senator hailing from points outside of Cook County voted for it. This law will not prohibit the manufac­ ture of butterine, but will prevent the use of coloring matter to make the pro­ duct of the factory "took like the product of the farm and the creamery. The suc­ cess of the business of making butterine depended upon the success of the methods fOr imitating pure butter. Hereafter all butterine will be white like lard, and ev­ ery person who sees it will know exactly what it is. And that knowledge, so the representatives of the manufacturers say, will practically wipe out its sale. The present output of the butterine fac­ tories of Chicago is not less than 100,000 pounds daily, and it is believed that this will be reduced to less than 25,000 pounds a day. Not only will the product be less­ ened in amount, but its price will sniffer a tremendous reduction. Good butterine has sold for within a few cents of real butter per pound, but hereafter when it will have to go on the market looking like lard it will not be in such demand. Another result from the j>assage of the law that is confidently predicted is that the output of farm and creamery butter will increase from an average of 100,- 000,000 pounds annuaUy to about 150,- 000,000 pounds. Experts who are famil­ iar with dairy statistics estimate that the added revenue to the farmers of Illinois will not be less than $3,000,000 a year. Following are the changes made in Illi­ nois by the fourteenth annual readjust­ ment m classification and salaries of pres­ idential pes to dices: Increases.--Abingdon, $1,600 to $1,800; Ba- tavia, $2,300 to $2,400; Blue Island, $2,000 to $2,100; Golconda, $1,000 to $1,100; La- Harpe, $1,200 to $1,300; Mlnonk, $1,000 to $1,700; Mount Vernon, $1,900 to $2,000; Na­ tional Stock Yards, $2,300 to $2,400; Pontlac, $2,100 to $2,200; Savanna, $1,500 to $1,600; Altamont, $1,000 to $1,100; Beardstown, $1,700 to $1,S00; Braldwood, $1,300 to $1,400; Evanston, $2,700 to $2,800; Highland, $1,600 to $1,700; Lawrenceville, $1,100 to $1,200; Morgan Park, $1,700 to $1,S00; Moweaqua, $1,000 to $1,100; Newton. $1,300 to $1,400; Hlverslde, $1,100 to $1,200; Vienna, $1,200 to $1,300; Barry, $1,200 to $1,400; Blandins- ville, $1,000 to $1,100; DeKalb, $2,400 to $2,500; Oilman, $1,100 to $1,200; LaGrange, $1,800 to $1,900; Marion, $1,300 to $1,400; Mound City, $1,200 to $1,300; Murphysboro, $1,700 to $1,800; Odel!, $1,300 to $1,400; Bock Island. $2,700 to $2,800; Winnetka, $1,000 to $1,100. Decreases.--Atlanta, $1,300 U $1,200; Can­ ton, $2,400to$2,300; Carlyle, $1,300 to $1,200; Colchester, $1,200 to $1,100; Delavan, $1,500 to $1,400; Elgin, $3,200 to $3,100; Parmer City, $1,500 to $1,400; Fulton, $2,000 to $1,800; Harrlsburg?fc$l,400 to $1,300; Lemont, $1,700 to $1,400; Mattoon, $2,400 to $2,300 Mount Pulaski, $1,500 to $1,400; Oakland, $1,300 to $1,100; Paris, $2,300 to $2,200; Princeton, $2,100 to $2,000; Sandwich, $1,800 to $1,700; Sterling, $2,500 to $2,400; Urbana, $2,200 to $2,000; Warsaw, $1,500 to $1,400; Austin, $2,300 to $2,200; Carbondale, $1,700 to $1,600; Chenoa, $1,400 to $1,300; Collins- vllle, $1,600 to $1,400; Edwardsville, $1,800 to $1,700; Eimwood, $1,400 to $1,300; Farm- higton, $1,300 to $1,200; Galva, $1,800 to $1,700; Harvey, $1,S00 to $1,700; Lexington, $1,300 to $1,200: Maywood. $2,200 to $1,900; Naperville, $1,900 to $1,800; Oak Park, $2,900 to $2,700; Paxton, $1,800 to $1,700; Rock- falls, $1,700 to $1,500; Shawneetown, $1,300 to $1,200; Sycamore, $1,900 to $1,S00; Van- dalia, $1,700 to $1,600; Washington, §1,400 to $1,300; Benton, $1,300 to $1,200; Carlin- vllle, $1,S00 to $1,700; Clayton, $1,100 to $1,000; Decatur, $3,100 to $3,000; Effingham, $1,800 to $1,700; Fairmount, $1,200 to $1,100; Freeport, $2,8Q0 to $2,700; Hamilton, $1,200 to $1,100; Kewauee, $2,300 to $2,200; Ma­ rengo, $1,600 to $1,500; Monticello, $1,700 to $1,600; Normal. $2,000 to $1,900; Olney, $1,800 to $1,700; Piano, $1,900 to $1,700; Rosevllle, $1,100 "to $1,000; Shelbyville, $1,800 to $1,700; Upper Alton, $1,300 to $1,200; Warren, $1,31.'* to $1,200; Waukegan, $2,500 to $2,400. In the Sewers. Wonderful are the resoturees of Paris. The pneumatic tubes used in the dis­ patch of card telegrams and letter tel­ egrams from one portion otf the city to the other are placed In the sewers. The excellent sewer system has helped the developmuit o.f this handy means of communication in a way which would not have been possible otherwise. It is quicker than the telegraph for mes­ sages wltibin t.he city. These telegrams are especially convenient for lovers' correspondence--more secret than the telegram proper, making no awkwaid mistakes in times and places--and, best of all, preserving tlie caligraphy of the sender. More serious tilings are doubt­ less passing across the coils wthich cov­ er the itie«uia:inder of the roof of the tun­ nel. ThaseNa.re the telegraph and tele­ phone wires, thousands of miles of them, connecting tlie 210 postotlices and placing hundreds of subscribers in the city within earshot. Overhead wires are prohibited in Paris, so are sky signs, and the city gains in beauty in conse­ quence. DEATH IN THE HEAT. Snfferinjf. Humanity Succumbs Sun's, Fierce Hays, The excessively hot weather of the pa week, following an unusual coid spr period, has brought no inconsiderable suf fering. Mahy places report the he June weather ever known. WednesdSj, the South was a furnace. In Kansas thef earth sizzled Under shade trees, which! could riot keep the mercury from reachln® 100 degrees. Ofaly Duluth escaped the* hot wave, the thermometer registering at minimum of 46 degrees there, 31 degree^ lower than at not far distant St Paul.1 The extreme East had a few degrees les# warmth. This is an indication of how? the country sweltered: Concordia, Kan.. 100 Des Moines Omaha 901 • • - 98 Davenport ....... 90. Dodge City !¥i St. Louis 90, Jacksonville. Fia. «h> Springfield, 111.... 90: Abilene, Texas... 94 Nashville ........ 90< Kansas City .... 94- Washington 88 Charlotte. N. C.. 94 Chicago 84 AmariUo, Texas. 92 New York ........ 80 Parkersbnrg 92 Boston TSj North Platte ... 90 Albany -78.1 •Chicago and vicinity Wednesday after-' noon and night was visited by a terrifi<? thunderstorm. Strange visitant with tlw rain was hail which fell heavily in th® south end of the city. Terrifying light­ ning Hashed and played queer freaks, and! thunder roared. Fatalities were supple­ mented by damage to. property and by broken and surcharged overhead wires. Persons were shocked and injured by th® electric fluid. The rain Ml in sheets an<S choked up sewers and flooded basement® oyer the city.-, y . - The electrical display, due to the lonffi drought and the overcharged condition off. the air, was sotneching marvelous. It hadi another side than the spectacular, At* tlie Harrison street bridge the lightning! became, enamored of the iron girders of' the structure, and completing a circuit with the ground wires of the trolley line* turned the bridge into a mighty magnet.; George Brown, a driver, urged his horse; out upon the bridge in spite of the blUei flames that were playing along the irow rods. The animal was hardly upon thai structure before the electric fluid leaped1 through the iron calks of its shoes and' it went down in a heap, stone dead. Thw draw 'was finally swung open and the circuit broken. Lightning struck several electric street cars, one of which was thrown from the track by the shock^J Lightning ran along the cable in the p(ower house of the Met­ ropolitan elevated electric road and caus­ ed a blaze in the repair shop. The rainfall; lasted almost incessantly from 3 o'clock in the afternoon- until midnight. CROPS IN GOOD SHAPE. Favorine: Weather Conditions and' Everything Growing Rapidly. The following bulletin, based on th» reports of the directors of the several; climate and crop sections, is furnishedf for the information of the public: The weather conditions of the week have been generally favorable to agricultural in­ terests over the greater portion of the country. There has been too much rain, however, in New England and the u'orthera! portions of the Middle Atlantic States,- where it has also been rather cool, while over portions of the lower Ohio valley, west­ ern Tennessee and northeastern Missouri; rain is much needed. Except over limited, areas rains would also prove generally bene­ ficial to growing crops in the central valleys and Central Gulf States. The latter part ths week was particularly favorable tni the States of the upper Mississippi and Mis­ souri valleys. In Nebraska the week was the most favorable of the season. Corn, while generally backward, has made goodi progress in the principal corn States under, the favorable weather conditions of the past week. A marked improvement in the con­ dition of the crop is reported from Mis­ souri, Kansas and Nebraska, and generally, throughout tljfi central valleys improvement Is rtp&rteiT. Cold weather and frosts of pre­ vious weeks have caused serious Injury In; Wisconsin. Minnesota and ^forth Dakota, and the unseasonable cool weather of the past week in Ne\y England aqd til£ northern portions or tne middle Atlantic States and! upper Ohio Valley has retarded the progresY of corn. In these last named districts the crop is backward and the'plant looks yellow, while considerable rotting in the liill is re­ ported from New England. There has been a general improvement in the condition ofl cotton throughout the cotton belt, the im­ provement being most marked in South Car­ olina and Georgia. The crop is generally clean and insects less numerous. In Texas the crop needs warm, dry weather over the northern portions of the State, where growth has been slow and some replanting contin­ ues, while showers would prove beneficial in other sections of the State. Winter wheat has. except on . the Pacific coast, continued to improve. Harvest is now in progress in the southern portion of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, and is nearlilg completion in some of the more southerly States. M'KINLEY'S SUMMER HOME. ;-f He Has Found an Ideal Retreat a Few Miles from Washington. Seven miles southwest of Washington and back of Fort Myer President McKin­ ley has acquired a summer home known as "Cherry Valley," though not perhaps named after the historic, incident in the life of George Washington. If is the property of ex-Senator John B. Hender­ son of Missouri. Here President and Mrs. McKinley, with Secretary and Mrs. Porter, will spend the heated summer months. The house is far back from the public road. Situated along a veritable forest of M'KINLEY'S summer HOMB. fruit and shade trees, the small summer cottage is as completely isolated as though it were a thousand miles from the na­ tional capital. One must have a most intimate acquaintance with the geography of the adjacent country in order to find the house at all. It is reached by a nar­ row lane which turns in from the main road about half a mile below the small village of Ballston. The first sight of the house is disap­ pointing, for it seems small. But its full size is not apparent from the front view, for when making the turn in the driveway it is seen -that the building extends quite a good distance to the rear. It is two stories in height, a titer t he style of many; Southern houses, and there are porebee and vepandas on all sides. The house is furnished handsomely throughout. Saxon Christian Names. Many of tlie women's Christian names common in the fourteenth cen­ tury, but which haw dropped out of use, are quite worthy of being restored. Thus I offer for consideration the fol­ lowing:' Athelena, Alditha, Alvelina, Alfreda, Anable, Annice, Aniicia, Avice, Clarice, Clemence, Ellcia, Idon- ia, Denys, Farilda, Basilia, Etheldreda, Erneburga, Olive, Nichola, Eustachia, Roesia, Petronilla or Pernilla, Sabine and Theophania--otherwise Tiffany. Told iu a Few Line*. Miss Mary Perdue, aged IS yeans, daughter of Edward Penhie, a rich bank­ er of Huron. Kau., has eloped with Fred Walter, a farm hand, and was married to him at Leavenworth. The remaining braves of the Sioux tribes have petitioned the Government for permission to erect a monument oyer the graves of the dead warriors slain at the battle of Wounded Knee seven years ago. Application was made at Pittsburg for a receiver for the Westmoreland Fire­ brick Company on account of its inabil­ ity to pay $37,000 now due. The asseia .include the plant and property valued at $130,00Qp 5' Albert Benson and Thomas Olsen got into a friendly wrestling match at Brook­ lyn. Olsen Kfted Benson off his feet ani, threw him backward. He did not rise* however, and Olsen walked over and trie! to raise him. Benson's aeck was bro)E«%